Sessions at Strata 2012 about HBase and Hadoop on Thursday 1st March

NetApp is a fast growing provider of storage technology. Its devices “phone home” regularly, sending unstructured auto-support log and configuration data back to centralized data centers. This data is used to provide timely support, to improve sales, and to plan product improvements. To allow this, data is collected, organized, and analyzed. The system currently ingests 5 TB of compressed data per week, which is growing 40% per year. NetApp was previously storing flat files on disk volumes and keeping summary data in relational databases. Now NetApp is working with Think Big Analytics, deploying Hadoop, HBase and related technologies to ingest, organize, transform and present auto-support data. This will enable business users to make decisions and provide timely response, and will enable automated response based on predictive models. Key requirements include: